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Imgur's community was in revolt

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163 points miiiiiike | 2 comments | 02 Sep 25 13:33 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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jmclnx ◴[02 Sep 25 14:19 UTC] No.45103476[source]▶
>years-long degradation of the website

This is a very true statement, but to me the degradation started many years ago.

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1. bslaq ◴[02 Sep 25 14:22 UTC] No.45103507[source]▶
The degradation started when they began looking at the Accept HTTP header to see if you were clicking a direct link to an image so they could show you a page full of ads instead of just the image. And that happened well before that bloke sold the site.
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2. BuyMyBitcoins ◴[02 Sep 25 15:15 UTC] No.45104182[source]▶
I remember a long time ago you’d click on a direct link and it would redirect you to the image’s page. Then, it would superimpose a cat paw beckoning the user to swipe and see other images. I recall people really hating that.

Now the site can’t help but show you some tacked-on TikTok style video or animated gif underneath the image you actually wanted to view.